I still think it’s way too early to be ruling out neuromorphic hardware, spiking or not.
Sure, I wouldn’t say “rule out”, it’s certainly a possibility, especially if we’re talking about the N’th generation of ASICs. I guess I’d assign <10% probability that the first-generation ASIC that can run a “human-level AGI algorithm” is based on spikes. (Well, depending on the exact definitions I guess.) But I wouldn’t feel comfortable saying <1%. Of course that probability is not really based on much, I’m just trying to communicate what I currently think.
draw attention to the need to compare apples to apples
In an apples-to-apples comparison, it’s super duper ridiculously blindingly obvious that a human nervous system is harder to understand than a worm nervous system. In fact I’m somewhat distressed that you thought I was disagreeing with that!!!
I added a paragraph to the article to try to make it more clear—if you found it confusing then it’s a safe bet that other people did too. Thanks!
Sure, I wouldn’t say “rule out”, it’s certainly a possibility, especially if we’re talking about the N’th generation of ASICs. I guess I’d assign <10% probability that the first-generation ASIC that can run a “human-level AGI algorithm” is based on spikes. (Well, depending on the exact definitions I guess.) But I wouldn’t feel comfortable saying <1%. Of course that probability is not really based on much, I’m just trying to communicate what I currently think.
In an apples-to-apples comparison, it’s super duper ridiculously blindingly obvious that a human nervous system is harder to understand than a worm nervous system. In fact I’m somewhat distressed that you thought I was disagreeing with that!!!
I added a paragraph to the article to try to make it more clear—if you found it confusing then it’s a safe bet that other people did too. Thanks!